Instantiating a mechatronic valve schedule for a hydrocephalus shunt

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 749-752

  Momani, Lina ^a   Alkharabsheh, Abdel Rahman ^a   Al Zu'bi, Nayel ^a   Al Nuaimy, Waleed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; DYNAMIC TREATMENTS; FIGURE OF MERITS; HYDROCEPHALUS PATIENTS; HYDROCEPHALUS SHUNTS; INTRA-CRANIAL PRESSURE; SIMULINK; TIME BASED;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77950964786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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